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2018 Austin Music Award nominee for Best Songwriter and Austin's New Band is dropping her first debut album on September 20, 2019, and celebrating with an album release show. Come see what this 17-year-old has been up to! Cover is $5 at the door.

Continuation of 2016 debut Heavn, Jamila Woods’ new Legacy! Legacy! builds upon the R&B blocks of the former into a transcendental exposé of black artistry as the Chicago native untangles police brutality, Black music appropriation, and activist burnout. As Duendita, NYC’s Candace Camacho offers the warm soul intonations of last year’s Direct Line to My Creator.

Running most Tuesdays (and a few Saturdays & Thursdays), this series aims to inspire kids to learn more and help them find ways to give back for animals in need. Rotating events include storytime, art workshops, wildlife rescue, teddy bear surgery, and outdoor movie nights.

This ongoing author series has scheduled up a doozie for a Tuesday night, with local brisket-loving shutterbug Wyatt McSpadden presenting the picture-packed follow-up to his first book about barbecue, this one so good you'll think lightning can strike twice. (Hell, at least twice; maybe he's got a third volume in the works?) Bonus: The admission price includes some fiiiiine Chez Zee appetizers, dessert bites, tea, and coffee.

This, in case you somehow didn't know (and please accept our sincere congratulations on finally waking up from that years-long coma, yo, it's good to have you back), is Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop musical about America's Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. Brought to town by the good people of Broadway in Austin, it's a phenomenon that's worthy of its endless hype, and they say tickets are possibly still available if you were born on a full moon, the wind is coming in from the northeast, and the Westlake sibyl dances a clockwise tarantella during consultation. Or, better: See the website right here for the show's two-days-before ticket lottery.

It’s here, it’s back, and so are Austin Black Pride, Austin Pride, and ASP Cares Pharmacy for a season 2 premiere party for Pose. Stick around after for the mini-ball, with four open-to-all contest categories. Winner takes home $200.

Rolling Thunder Revue tour member Kinky Friedman introduces this screening of Scorsese's film about Bob Dylan's two-leg, 57-date Rolling Thunder Revue tour, in which Dylan and musical guests played at smaller venues in less populated cities between 1975 and 1976. Plus, End of an Ear will be on-site with a pop-up shop selling Dylan LPs and ephemera.

It's been a year since Bryce Gilmore's excellent new neighborhood spot opened, and they're inviting everybody out for a night of passed bites, drinks, and bluegrass. You know the food's gonna be exquisite, as ever – and the live music will launch the market's bluegrass music series, featuring local artists who'll fill the space with weekly tunes throughout the summer.

Women and nonbinary leaders across the great state of Texas are encouraged to apply for one of three micro-grants ($500 to $1,000) now offered by BossBabes ATX! Find info on what it takes and how to apply online.

Audience Award Series: Chambers' tale of 18-year-old Charlie teaming up with Oz – a man experiencing homelessness whose only possession is his driver's license – to track down her biological father won Austin Film Festival's 2018 Narrative Feature Audience Award.

The Dance Department of Austin Community College offers classes in modern, jazz, ballet, and improvisation techniques, with student work produced twice a year in the Choreographers' Showcase. Teachers include Ellen Bartel, Jessica Cox, Kathy Dunn Hamrick, Roxanne Gage, Darla Johnson, Sunny Shen, Catherine Solaas and Melissa Watt. Note: Classes can be taken for credit and applied toward your degree.

The Austin Forum on Technology and Society hosts a session on artificial intelligence (AI) software technology. Speakers will discuss the technology's growth and importance, as well as how individuals, organizations, and governments are poised to take advantage.

Hosted by the Austin chapter of the American Institute of Architects, this luncheon features Zoë Ryan, curator of architecture and design at the Art Institute of Chicago, who is presenting "Taking Positions: Making Exhibitions of Architecture and Design."

During 2018, Medearis – known to millions as The Kitchen Diva – donated several books, manuscripts, photographs, awards, and research papers to the Carver Museum. Now, they’ve been curated and presented as this new exhibition.

A depressed linguist Louise Banks, (Adams) whose daughter has died young from an illness, and Ian Donnelly (Renner), a cosmologist with a healthy dose of brainiac optimism, must race against the worst natures of their own species and learn to converse with mysterious aliens.

Witness here an array of life-sized and larger works recently created by Meena Matocha, the artist having wielded charcoal, ashes, soil, acrylics, and wax to create paintings that "combine abstraction and figuration, exploring the space between grief and joy, the place where heaven and earth converge."

This school of representational art is led by four world-class locals, teaches drawing and painting (both fundamental and advanced programs), has open studios with live modeling, a schedule of workshops featuring visiting artists from around the world, and is located in the heart of Big Medium's Canopy complex. Oh look – we profiled and interviewed the faculty right here!

Ground Floor Theatre and Deaf Austin Theatre are holding auditions for this Tony-winning musical, to be directed by Lisa Scheps and Brian Cheslik for performances in December. This production will be fully deaf inclusive, with each character double-cast with a deaf actor and a hearing actor (some characters are deaf and some hearing). See website for details and appointments.

Susan Scafati's solo exhibition spans three floors and features work (photoprints, sculpture, hand-embellished documents) that expands on the artist's exploration of the ways in which individual identities and mythologies are constructed. And, ah, we love what that Calder Kamin does, and the library's also got a new showcase of her work, "What a Mess," featuring trash transformed into sculptures, animations, and installations, commenting on the mess humans have made for our natural neighbors throughout our existence.

Bring your baby and baby carrier for a workout blending Pilates conditioning and barre fitness principles. Anyone wearing a baby (including dads, nannies, grandparents, and other caregivers) is welcome, as are those expecting one.